Dear Lord,
You love me and call me to funnel Your love into everything I do.
Help me to live the kind of life You’ve called me to live with Your gifts of humility, gentleness, and patience so that I can lovingly accept others the way You accept me.
Help me to be kind and also forgiving, just as Christ forgave me. Help me to love my brothers and sisters with tenderheartedness and to be courteous to all.
I ask You to help me see the needs around me so I can share compassion with those I love and those even beyond my own circle. Show me when and how to reach out to the hungry and the hurting. Pure religion is not practiced in church but whenever I see and attend to widows, orphans, and others in need.
Help me to remain uncorrupted by the world. Keep me from becoming jaded. Show me how to use compassion as a secret weapon to help others defeat the devourer. May those with whom I share compassion grow in love so that they can turn and share Your compassion with others. In this way, allow Your gift of compassion to become an endless gift throughout the generations.
I want to live my life in and through Your love.
In the name of Jesus, amen.
1 Corinthians 16:14 GW
Live the kind of life which proves that God has called you. Be humble and gentle in every way. Be patient with each other and lovingly accept each other.
Ephesians 4:1–2 GW
Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.
Ephesians 4:32 NIV
Finally, all of you be of one mind, having compassion for one another; love as brothers, be tenderhearted, be courteous.
1 Peter 3:8 NKJV
Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you.
James 1:27 NLT